2023 Vital Signs Report
Feature Report
Climate Change
Biosphere Reserves are both learning laboratories and priority sites for monitoring climate change. Read about our monitoring work here.
Research for change: new challenges, new directions
Collaborative research is vital in our advocacy for community and ecosystem health. We cultivate and integrate knowledge from different ways of knowing for deeper meaning and heightened relevance in today’s world. We work in relationship with First Nations, non-profits, local governments, businesses, academia, and the UNESCO biosphere network in Canada and beyond. This unique network allows us to support equitable local solutions to global challenges.
Our research initiatives include:
- producing biennial Vital Signs and Living Wage reports;
- building alliances for biodiversity conservation and climate action;
- coordinating social and ecological research and education projects that contribute to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals;
- funding research projects led by charities, local governments, and First Nations.
CBT adheres to the Standard of Conduct for Research in Northern Barkley and Clayoquot Sound Communities and urges all organizations conducting research in the Clayoquot Biosphere Region to do the same.
